From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 29 18:52:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ADA837B404; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:52:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 826A56AC9D; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:22:38 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:22:38 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Boris Popov Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Steve Ames , John Baldwin , John Indra , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS newbie... Message-ID: <20010130132238.H48490@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010130114848.B48269@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bp@butya.kz on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:37:56AM +0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 30 January 2001 at 8:37:56 +0600, Boris Popov wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there. >> >> What is the reason for this? How does a program or script know >> whether the system is running DEVFS or not? > > I don't see any good reason why this can't be supported. We may > talk about 'broken' devices, etc., but while there any - mknod needs to be > supported to make transition more smooth. I'm assuming that there's a good technical reason for the lack of mknod. It also seems that mkdir doesn't work in devfs. Let's give phk time to wake up and tell us. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message